In 1979, Basu Chatterjee made Baaton Baaton Mein and unobtrusively brought to us the dating and courtship rituals of a community that was till then either caricatured or just overlooked in Hindi cinema. Nancy Perreira and Tony Braganza…
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Matriarchal manipulation in a patriarchal world is depicted unsparingly in Usha Priyamwada’s Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (Now playing on Prasar Bharti). The mother resentful of her lecturer daughter’s comfortable life in her college residence because the younger daughters…
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“Start with hope..always start with hope. We went from being a shitty team to become one of the biggest dynasties in the sport and all it needed was one match to light this fire,” says Michael Jordan at…
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In 1947, my grandparents brought three children and the remains of an uprooted life from Pakistan to India in a train. One of those children was my mother. I grew up hearing a lot of stories about the…
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Three documentaries streaming right now show the ultimate culmination of the Bois Locker Room culture. And what happens when one gender is taught to mistrust its instincts of self-preservation and the other does not even learn something as…
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In Sudip Sharma’s Paatal Lok (Now streaming on Amazon. Co written by Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra. Directed by Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy), India’s disowned inhabit the headlines we turn away from. A young…
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Standing there, ankle deep in water with cool breeze caressing my cheeks I felt myself shiver It has been days, probably weeks It is time, I realised with a sigh to be something more than a beautiful dreamer Yes, it is time to try to rewrite the fate of a lone sailor Questions exploded in […]
Good bye.. I have to go now to the inner realms And roam there I am too tired Of seeking Of waxing like the moon… Of waning like the tide …. Of wandering out of My soul,out of myself I am tired now of the web of ties and emotions… Unsettling dreams and desires Unfinished […]
There is a song that is wanting to be sung. There is masterpiece that is waiting to be painted. There is a life waiting to be lived. There is this song in each of hearts. A yearning which is never quenched. And in some ways we are all learning to listen to that. When I […]
Untie the last knot of bonds And drop each fetter like a tear drop Breathe! You will be free If ever you were tied. Dry now like the arid land… Vast and directionless you shall be But feisty and lively like the graceful river Your soul will reach its coveted sea. Love is not a stagnant […]
In the town of confusion There’s a tree of serenity… In the soil of loneliness Grew a seed of aloneness Watching waiting wandering The seed reached the river And now the river flows Nowhere somewhere everywhere It knows the name of its destination But the paths are untrodden unknown Hardly does it matter though To […]
It happens. Let it. Or don’t. It matters. Maybe not. Run. Rest. Hide. Find. Stay. Go. Stop. Start. Hold on. Let Go. Life is now. Or maybe never.